Latest Tyler Cowen Quotes from Interviews

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• People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.

  Tyler Cowen

  Feel Better, People, Kind

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many other social indicators, as you know. Sometimes it's better to get the bad reaction to that over with quickly while your civil society still is strong and you can react and respond and protest, and you know, four or eight years from now, make another decision, and maybe it's better to have that happen in 2017 than 20 years later when some of our problems are worse and our national mood is worse.

  Tyler Cowen

  Strong, Decision, Abuse

  "A leading economist explains why Trump is a 'placebo president'". Interview with Josh Barro, www.businessinsider.com. March 13, 2017.

• I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.

  Tyler Cowen

  Optimistic, Thinking, Progress

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.

  Tyler Cowen

  Thinking, President, Sometimes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com